I am not sure whether I understand your answer (or whether you understood my actual question ;)): the tailhook and the canopy of the T-45 Goshawk (by IndiaFoxEcho - who also provided the MB339 earlier) do work within Flight Simulator: that is, the tailhook properly is lowered and raised (visually), and so is the canopy (open, close) when I operate the corresponding handles in the cockpit, with the mouse.
But the problem I have is that this is seemingly not reflected by the corresponding simulation variable states, namely the variables TAILHOOK POSITION and CANOPY OPEN: according to the MSFS SDK documentation (linked above) they should work, but I always get values 0.0 back - also with the provided SDK example app “SimvarWatcher”, regardless of whether I set the metrics (unit) to “percent over 100”, “percent”, “number” or even “degrees”.
So are you implying that you do get values > 0.0 for the CANOPY OPEN variable (e.g. with SimvarWatcher), e.g. for the Spitfire? Because that would probably also imply that the T-45 Goshawk implementation simply does not properly set those variables (yet) (-> I have also a pending question with IndiaFoxEcho about this, but yeah, on their facebook announcement post. I have yet to find a proper contact address ;)).
Otherwise it could simply mean that FS 2020 - despite claiming otherwise in the SDK documentation - simply does not support yet the TAILHOOK POSITION and CANOPY OPEN variables.
Again, I’m interested whether others were successfully reading (and setting) those variables with other aircraft, or whether anyone can confirm the same observations (with the same T-45 model or with other aircraft even).
Thanks!